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Release Date:
May 1, 2003
Original Title:
Praan Jaye Par Shaan Na Jaye
Alternate Titles:
Pran Jaaye Par Shaan Na Jaaye
Genres:
Drama
Production Countries:
India
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 137
Aman Joshi (Aman Verma) is on a research assignment. His subject is the chawl dwellers in Bombay City. He rents a small tenement there and talks to the people living there. He soon gets involved in their lives, and even gets attracted to plain-looking Saundarya (Divya Mirza), who he transforms into a beauty, after a cosmetic makeover. Aman's kindness is mistaken for generosity by all the chawl dwellers, and they swarm him for his money, trying to get loans and gifts, to improve their lives. Then the lives of this small community are turned upside down, when the owner announces that he intends to tear the building down.
Dialogue:
Sanjay Pawar
Director:
Sanjay Jha
Original Music Composer:
Daboo Malik
Nitin Raikwar
Producer:
Raj Lalchandani
Mahesh Manjrekar
Asoo Nihalani
Sagoon Wagh
Screenplay:
Mahesh Manjrekar
Story:
Sanjay Pawar
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